Humanities & Sciences News
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That intellectual energy extends far beyond department walls. Through lectures, conferences, performances and exhibitions, H&S scholars reflect and engage with the Stanford community and experts from around the world.
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Latest News
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- Calvin Quate, Carla Shatz win 2016 Kavli Prizes
- Jun 2 - Quate won the Kavli Nanoscience Prize for his lead role in inventing the atomic force microscope and Shatz won the Kavli Neuroscience Prize for her work in understanding how the brain forms the proper connections. Read more »
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- Storytelling since 1891: Celebrating 125 Years of Journalism Innovation at Stanford
- May 19 - New website highlights the history of journalism on the Farm. The monthly Palo Alto, launched in October 1891, noted in its prospectus that it was likely, “the only college paper ever started simultaneously with the opening of a great university.” Read more »
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- Stanford launches its first free online course in classical music appreciation
- May 19 - Designed to be of interest both to musicians and those with no prior knowledge of the form, “Defining the String Quartet: Haydn” explores the origins of the string quartet through the lens of its first great exponent, Joseph Haydn. Read more »
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- Stanford music scholar explains Beethoven’s rise as a cultural icon in China
- May 10 - Jindong Cai’s new book reveals that “there is no parallel to the depth and breadth of Beethoven’s integration into the culture, politics and private passions of China.” Read more »
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- Partners in discovery: How Stanford and SLAC scientists collaborate to advance science
- May 10 - The relationship between SLAC and Stanford goes back 60 years, to a meeting where Stanford physicists helped plot construction of the linear accelerator. Since then, collaborations have contributed to four Nobel prizes as well as unparalleled opportunities for Stanford faculty and students to investigate the world and solve global challenges. Read more »
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- Six faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
- May 4 - Congratulations to professors Hongie Dai, Jennifer Eberhardt, Martin Fejer, Hazel Markus, Maryam Mirzakhani, and Steve Palumbi for being elected to receive one of the highest honors for an American scientist. They join three other Stanford faculty also elected to the NAS: Helen Blau, John Boothroyd, and Paul Seagall. Read more »
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- Music faculty win Guggenheim fellowships
- Apr 26 - Congratulations to Jonathan Berger, who received his fellowship for composition, and Ge Wang, who was recognized for music research. The fellowships are awarded to midcareer individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Read more »
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- Stanford historian studies how U.S. intervention in Afghanistan changed that country
- Apr 22 - Drawing on archives and oral testimony, historian Robert Crews discovers an Afghanistan that hardly fits the forbidding image that has fueled the U.S. military’s disastrous intervention there. Read more »
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- Three H&S faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Apr 22 - Congratulations to Eavan Boland, Jennifer Eberhardt, and Helen Longino for being among six Stanford faculty tapped to join AAAS, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies. Read more »
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- Stanford’s map center devoted to the ‘joyful exploration of all things cartographic’
- Apr 15 - The David Rumsey Map Center, which contains more than 150,000 rare maps, atlases, globes and pocket maps, will celebrate its grand opening next week, with an evening open house on Tuesday, special presentations and workshops on Wednesday and Thursday, and a daylong open house on Friday. Read more »
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- Nate Parker to deliver annual lecture hosted by Stanford’s African & African American Studies progra
- Apr 13 - April 20 event is free and open to the public. Read more »
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- Stanford humanities students cook up Julia Child’s recipes, study history
- Apr 8 - Kristen Haring takes her American studies class into a “teaching kitchen” to study the famed chef’s impact on American culture. Read more »
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H&S Stories About Passion:
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- Tommy Tobin
- Tobin is committed to giving back to his community. Watch »
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- Chase Mendenhall
- Mendenhall is a PhD student studying ecology and evolutionary biology. Watch »
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- Jhanvi Shriram
- Shriram explores the intersection of democracy and media with her camera. Watch »
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